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There is a push in San Antonio to raise the legal smoking age from 18 to 21. A push to make San Antonio the first city in Texas to raise the smoking age has some small business leaders crying foul. Anwar Tahir runs three corner stores in the city and said smokers won't make two...

Austin police are making a holiday push to remind drivers about the Move Over law. As more people begin travelling for the holidays, Austin police want to remind you that it's the law to try and move over a lane when you come upon an emergency vehicle on the side of the road...

There's a renewed push to commute the sentence of a death row inmate. Jeff Wood was in his pickup truck twenty one years ago when a cohort robbed a Kerrville, Texas convenience store and killed a clerk. Wood was condemned under the "law of parties", which states that a person...

(photo YouTube) Texas Central-the developers of the Texas high speed bullet train have appointed former Houston Astros owner Drayton McLane as their new Chairman of the Board. The train would travel at over 200 miles per hour, connecting the state's largest cities together. The...

(photo YouTube) He's staying put. UT System Chancellor Bill McRaven will keep his job in 2018 beyond his contract expiration. There had been some speculation McRaven would be ousted because of high-profile clashes with lawmakers over guns on campus, tuition rates and other...

The FBI has doubled its reward for information in the death of a border patrol agent that could lead to resolving the case. Agent Rogelio Martinez died after he was found Nov. 18 with severe head injuries and broken bones. The reward for information increased from $25,000 to $50...

In the only case of its kind, and in what the group Texas Values calls a major win for them and for Houston taxpayers, the U.S. Supreme Court today rejected the City of Houston’s request to review whether Houston taxpayers may challenge the city’s policy of providing spousal...

The state is out with a warning about typhus. There have been 387 cases this year, which is an increase from last year's count of 364 cases. Reports of typhus in Texas typically go up in May through July and again in December and January. Lara Anton with the Texas Department of...

While the overall economy continues to show modest growth, rural America is lagging behind. Currently there is no question that the rural economy is in a downturn. Ag economist and financial analyst Dr. Dave Kohl says that so far the normal economic cycle has functioned as...